The German conservative in pole position to become the next chancellor is toughening his position on migration as he tries to ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has blasted his conservative rival's call for a rollback of recent reforms that makes it easier ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, who is favoured to succeed Olaf Scholz as chancellor, would support a new attempt ...

All leading European arms makers, including Rheinmetall, Dassault Aviation, Leonardo and Saab were up by 2-3%, while the ...

With opposition leader Friedrich Merz likely to be Germany's next chancellor, experts weigh in on whether his tough China ...

The German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, who is in pole position to become the country’s next chancellor, has said the EU should make a fresh attempt at a sweeping free trade deal with the ...

Friedrich Merz is a longtime rival of Angela Merkel who has tried to move their party back to the right.

If the polls hold, Mr. Scholz’s successor as chancellor could be Friedrich Merz, the now 69-year-old leader of the rival conservative-centrist Christian Democratic Union. He is offering to get ...

Only unforeseen circumstances could prevent Friedrich Merz, the hard-talking chief of the CDU conservative party, from ...

Friedrich Merz said a new push for a free trade deal with the US could "prevent a dangerous spiral of tariffs." The opposition Christian Democrat leader hopes to become chancellor after February's ...

Merz said Musk had “overlooked” a few important points in his article, saying he would never have been able to build his Tesla factory in the east German state of Brandenburg with the AfD. It was the ...